Aquino, the first female president of the country who helped toppled former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, in a people’s power revolt in 1986, died in Manila, on Saturday at 3:18 a.m. She was 76.
In a statement, Sablan said the people of the Republic of the Philippines have lost a beloved leader and true hero of democracy.
“The world will always remember Cory Aquino as a woman of incredible strength of will and unflinching bravery in the face of tyranny. She was a champion of peace, religious piety, and human rights and she will be missed,” the CNMI Congressman said in a statement.
“My wife Andrea, who was born in the Philippines, and I extend our deepest condolences to the Aquino family, to the people of the Philippines, and to our “kababayans” in the Northern Mariana Islands,” he added.
